Leave It to Beaver

Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, age eight, has misadventures and learns life lessons in this entertaining, hilarious tale of a small-town Ohio family and the daily trials of life. The Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio: wise father Ward, loving mother June, teenage son Wally, and 8-year-old Theodore, better known as "Beaver." Beaver hopes to get a bike as a gift from his father and to please him tries out for his school football team and he makes it, only to be embarrassed; the bike he gets is quickly stolen. Meanwhile, Wally is trying to help his friend Eddie Haskell win the heart of pretty classmate Karen, who seems to like Wally more, which leads to tension between the friends. —Anonymous The Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio: wise father Ward, loving mother June, 12-year-old son Wally, and 8 year-old son Beaver. Once Beaver sees a shiny red bike in a bike shop, he really wants it. Wally's seriously obnoxious friend Eddie gives Beaver the advice to "suck up" to his father by playing football. Soon it's Beaver's birthday and he gets a computer from his Aunt Martha and the shiny red bike he really wanted from his parents. On the first day of school, Wally rides Beaver to school. After school, Wally and Beaver meet up with Eddie, and Wally and Eddie go into the soda shop while Beaver waits outside. Suddenly, some other kid much older than Beaver comes and starts showing Beaver a lot of bike tricks. On the last trick, he takes off and does not come back. At dinner, Beaver and Wally tell Ward and June about the bike. At school the next day, Beaver has to see Miss Landers after school because of his failing grades. Soon after Wally tries to hook Eddie up with Karen, a classmate who seems to like Wally better than Eddie. Wally and Eddie get invited to Karen's boy-girl party, and everyone plays Spin the Bottle. Wally ends up with Karen, and afterwards they start hanging out together, but Karen's former boyfriend Kyle eventually reclaims her. After that, Kyle and the kid who stole Beaver's bike dares Beaver to go into the giant coffee cup above the coffee shop. Ward and June soon find out about the football team and the being left behind in school. —Corey Semple <corey.semple@earthlink.com>